Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing
We are recruiting for a Planning Team Manager in our Water Networks Business. As the successful candidate, your role will be to provide and manage an efficient planning function to enable the delivery of maintenance on our critical water network assets. Direct management of planners and analysts to ensure Network Asset Maintenance remedial activities and programmes are planned out in a timely manner taking into consideration best practice of water network asset standards, notification, and traffic management policies, cost efficiency, H&S standards, departmental KPIs, and targets. Liaison with future patch-based operational teams, infrastructure programmes, system optimisation, and both Asset and contract management teams are required to deliver operational goals to ensure that targets are clearly understood and delivered.
You will be responsible for:
- Develop and update relevant planning processes to achieve the highest asset availability and reduction of network risk by delivering all verification and leakage detection programmes within existing network constraints, financial efficiency and customer expectation
- Direct management and development of planning team, while driving new operational work management initiatives in conjunction with existing asset data systems
- Performance management of both the planning function and delivery partners by the creation of quality reporting formats to enable and identify root causes on delivery issues
- Support company initiatives and Water Networks transformation delivery at a local level to ensure teams are aware of and understand the changes, through strong communication and frequent engagement
- Work closely with systems operations and asset management teams to identify and mitigate operational, financial, and brand risk associated with planning delivery targets
We’re looking for you to have:
- A degree Post-graduate level education (or equivalent)
- Previous working experience relevant to the specific planning role within water networks
- Knowledge of water network maintenance activities in line with best operating practices and asset standards
- Some experience in people management and leadership
- Good competency in appropriate company planning and data systems including SAP (both work management and supply chain), ORA, GIS, Street Manager, Pi suite, Scada, Radar, Smartchart and Office software
- Well-developed communications skills – written and verbal
- Ability to travel around Thames Water estate as required
What’s in it for you:
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with a length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we’re moving to a hybrid approach where we’ll provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites, and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, and Disability Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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